Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Newt Gingrich says China stole $360 billion in intellectual property from U.S.

May 17, 2016

"The Chinese last year probably stole $360 billion in intellectual property from the United States."

Deal allows Iran to produce nuclear weapon, U.S. Senate candidate Carlos Beruff says

May 11, 2016

Says President Obama’s deal "allows Iran to produce a nuclear weapon."

Joe Biden misstates daily deaths in United States from cancer

May 9, 2016

"In the United States alone we lose more than 3,000 people a day to cancer."

For the third time, Donald Trump, U.S. is not ‘highest taxed nation in the world’

May 8, 2016

"We're the highest taxed nation in the world."

Bernie Sanders says minimum wage hike to $15 would reduce federal assistance by $7.6 billion a year

May 5, 2016

"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."

Sen. Ted Cruz addresses the crowd during day three

Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim linking Ted Cruz’s father and JFK assassination

May 3, 2016

Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Donald Trump wrong that Hillary Clinton ‘doesn’t do very well with women’

May 2, 2016

"Frankly, (Hillary Clinton) doesn’t do very well with women."

Donald Trump says Raul Castro snubbed Barack Obama at airport, and that it’s ‘without precedent’

April 28, 2016

"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in…

Has Barack Obama had a ‘no boots on the ground’ message for Syria?

April 27, 2016

Says President Barack Obama never said, "No boots on the ground" in Syria.

Ted Cruz says he won more votes in Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York

April 25, 2016

"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."

Hillary Clinton gets 0.2 percent of campaign donations from oil, gas employees, Robby Mook says

April 22, 2016

"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has…

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